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The Mountain's men are a dangerous, unsavory bunch,[3] grim and foul mouthed.[4]

The best that can be said for Gregor's men is that they are not quite as vile a bunch as the Brave Companions.[4]Sandor Clegane refers to his brother's soldiers as Gregor's "pet rats". According to Sandor, Gregor once killed one of his men for snoring.[5] Gregor never brings his men-at-arms to court in King's Landing.[5]

Thereafter, the Mountain's men join Lord Tywin's host as it marches through the riverlands, eventually fighting in the Lannister vanguard on the left flank of the battle on the Green Fork.[8] After the battle, Tywin withdraws to Harrenhal but leaves the Mountain's men and others to raid in the riverlands.[9]

During Lord Tywin's attempt to break through back to the westerlands at the Battle of the Fords, the Mountain's men join with Tywin's host and attack the crossing at the Stone Mill, which is defended by Ser Edmure Tully's forces. Along with the rest of the Lannister force, the Mountain's men are pushed back and forced to retreat.[12] Harrenhal is taken by Lord Bolton in their absence.

A Storm of Swords

Following their failure to cross the Red Fork, Ser Gregor and his men retake Harrenhal, which Roose Bolton has abandoned to Vargo Hoat. Inside, Gregor's men slaughter the inhabitants and defenders except for the cook who opens the gate, the castle smith Ben Blackthumb, and a girl named Pia whom the Mountain and his men rape repeatedly.

At some point after Polliver is left as castellan, Arya and Sandor confront some of Gregor's men who have gone to drink, whore, and "tickle the innkeep" at the crossroads inn. A fight breaks out when they attempt to capture Sandor, however, and the pair kill Polliver, the Tickler and a Sarsfield squire.[2]

A Feast for Crows

The remnants of Ser Gregor's men-at-arms, including Raff the Sweetling, Dunsen, and Shitmouth, remain stationed at Harrenhal.[17] When Ser Jaime Lannister arrives there on his way to Riverrun, a handful of Gregor’s men emerge from the castle's towers to watch him dismount. Jaime discovers that Gregor had named Polliver as his castellan after his departure, but Shitmouth informs him that Polliver was killed in a run-in with Sandor Clegane at the crossroads inn, leaving no one in charge at Harrenhal. After Jaime views Vargo Hoat's head, Shitmouth and Raff explain that Vargo's body was served as "roast goat" to Vargo himself and other prisoners.[4]

When Jaime informs Gregor's men that they can either ride with him to the siege of Riverrun or join Ser Bonifer Hasty's men, the men state Gregor promised rich rewards for those that rode with him. Jaime tells them to take any grievances up with Queen Regent Cersei Lannister.[4] Before he leaves Harrenhal, Jaime orders Ser Ilyn Payne to behead one of Gregor's men who tried to rape Pia, despite the perplexed man's protests.[4]

A Dance with Dragons

Twenty men accompany Red Ronnet Connington from Maidenpool to King's Landing, most of them the Mountain's former men. Within a day one is accused of murder and another of rape; Lord Randyll Tarly executes the murderer and gelds the raper.[19]

The Winds of Winter

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Raff the Sweetling is among Harys's guard in Braavos, where he is killed by Mercy.[20]

Quotes

At Wendish Town, the people sought shelter in their holdfast, but the walls were timbered. The raiders piled straw against the wood and burnt them all alive. When the Wendish folk opened their gates to flee the fire, they shot them down with arrows as they came running out, even women with suckling babes.[7]

They rode down my 'prentice boy. Chased him back and forth across the fields on their horses, poking at him with their lances like it was a game, them laughing and the boy stumbling and screaming till the big one pierced him clean through.[7]

Cersei: And someone needs to set Harrenhal to rights. We have urgent need of Wylis Manderly, assuming he is still alive and captive, but the garrison has not replied to any of our ravens.Jaime: Those are Gregor's men at Harrenhal. The Mountain liked them cruel and stupid. Most like they ate your ravens, messages and all.[4]